By Serdar Yegulalp Distributing desktop applications for Linux has long been a headache, in large part because apps have to be repackaged for each Linux distribution. And while an app-containerization technology like Docker …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Linux desktop apps take a packaging cue from Docker
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Flatpak, a project sponsored by the Freedesktop project and engineered mainly by Alex Larsson at Red Hat, is a single application package containing everything needed to run a …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: The year of the Linux desktop may never arrive
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•By Jim Lynch Will we ever see the year of the Linux desktop? Some Linux pundits and users have long awaited the year of the Linux desktop. But somehow it still hasn’t arrived. A …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linus hasn’t give up on the year of the Linux desktop
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•By Jim Lynch Linus still believes in the year of the Linux desktop Much has been written, over and over again, about the fabled (and some would say mythic) year of the Linux desktop. …read more Source:: OpenSource